THE CHESTNUT_SELLER The harvest time for the chestnut is from September to October. The chestnut sellers sell them baked from October to January.After those months the chestnut is too dry ans is not good to bake it. The chestnuts sellers are the women who bake and sell chestnuts in their street stalls during the automnal evenings. Carmen starts selling baked chestnuts the 5th of October and finishes in December. The first days of October, Carmen and Juan begin to build their street stall in one of the main streets of Alhaurín de la Torre. They use aluminium and canvas.   Foto hecha por Alejandro Balbuena Carmen learnt this job from her mother, who learnt it also from her mother... Now, she is teaching her son how to do it. In order to bake chestnuts you need: A hammer or a malle, a firm blade or Knif, a portable stove, a pot with holes at its bottom, a fan, paper cones, cooking salt, salt and chestnuts. Put coal in the portable stove and set fire to it. Some pot will be placed on fire, but one over the others. Put the chestnuts on the firm blade and hit it with the hammer or mallet in order to make a split on the chestnut. Put the chestnuts on the pot. Add first cooking salt and,then, normal one. Every now and then the chestnuts seller takes the pot and shakes it. So, all the chestnuts will be baked equally and from all its sides. With the help of the fan stoke the fire up. When the chestnuts are already baked, the seller will place them on the counter in order to sell them afterwards in paper cones.   The chestnuts sellers offer us those delicious fruits which ar slowly baked on the hot coal of their stoves. ( We can also bake chestnuts in the fireplace at home in autumn). This remains my father his childhood: he asked my grandmother for some money to buy baked chestnuts. It is wonderful going for a walk through the streets of the cities and see these old street stalls. We must contribute to this tradition buying chestnuts and tasting the Autumn.    Alumnos de 5º y 6º